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BIRTHDAY: February 26, 1829 BIRTHPLACE: Germany DEATH DATE: Sep 26, 1902 (age 73) Levi Strauss was a German-American businessman, who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. Dry-goods salesman who invented denim pants and founded the first blue-jeans manufacturing company, Levi